The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-05-07

10 HiiShollieI aHu Il mVtn. III is
simply q phrase costume in which
old prejudices masquerade through
modern prints seeking to pervert the
education of southern children into
the convictions that their ancestors,
if not criminal, were little more than
a lace OF idIers, blunderers, block
heads and failures. The literature
left by our statemen will stand az
monuments of wisdom and morals of
classical lore. In oil the depart
ments Of government, in law, litera-
ture and science, while the sonth has
boasted of no great army of writer's,
she has furnished the minds produc-
tive of the grandest results to the
country and the world. Z +
When a prolific little animal, vain of
her progeny, twitted the liOness for
nursing only one, the noble beast
replied: "Yes, only one--but it is a
lion"
DR.. Ward closes his splendid de-
fense by saying:
'Does this order Of men spring
| from race of idlers whose energies
have been emasculated by the curse
of slavery. y Let south
ern parents look to the EDUCATION of
their boys, and act with circumspec-
ton when the friends Of education
comea to us bearing gifts in the hope
of end0wments for southern univer
sites, where the boys are to be taught
to forget history and blush for the
character and deeds of their ancestors.
That's III that's it exactly, that's
what | have been thinking for 10
these inany years, and what ! have
been trying to say, but no man has
ever said it as well as Dr.. Ward. |
know him personally, and was his
guest at Winona, Mississippi. ! felt
that l was communing with think
er, a philosopher, southerner of the
| old school, type of the grand men
that the old south produced and the
new south will not produce and can
not produce. | affirm this humbly,
conscientiously and with faith--re-
luctant faith--that our present meth
ods will not and cannot produce as
| grand and noble men as the last half
tcentury before the war produced.
do not mix it with the slavery ques.
ton, but with other questions more
radically significant. ! have only
copied a scrap from DR.. Wards de-
| fense of the old south, her men and
measures, her patriotism, her integ-
rity, her craftsmanship, but if | had
my way ] would have it published as
a classic and have it planted in every
school and college in the south as an
authority not to be questioned. |
say to my childIen: "There is no
taint upon your ancestry There was
no curse in slavery. Harriet Reecher
Stowe wrote o romantic lie and the
whole far natical crew reyelled In
slayery--but slavery had its day and
served its purpose. Its time was out
let it be out. We are glad of 1t If
| it was the will of Providence, but be
carefsl lest worse evil befall US.
Let us fortify and entrench against
the love of money, which the Bible
tells US Is the root Of all evil.'
We want no more of slavery u
had it's mission, not its sin nor its
curse, but its mission both to white
and to black, and we are content.
Here are whole 10! of fools who
strut around Oh spectators money
and say let the old south alone, she's
dead dog and stinks. | heard u
bloated bondholder say that not long
ago, and in the same conversation he
Dragged about q painting he bought
Mt Stuurt's sale, and said 1t was 30O
years old. We will talk about the
old south just as much as we please
and no man shall make us afraid.
We love old things anyhow. They
are the best anyhow. The poet says:
" love it. love it, and who shall
| dare
To chide me for loving that old arm
chair
There is Old Hundred and Old
Lang Syne, and here are the trees
aud the old landmarks and the ola
men and old women with good old
honest habits AID limited desires,
who indulge in no folly and banker
after no big thing, but live calm and
serene and covet nothing but the
happiness of their children. see
that Mr.. Barnett has presented a
single that is a hundred years old to
the agricultural department. lexpect
It padded his grandfather, and is
therefore sac red relic of the old
south. The new south don't paddle
, much. But the school teachers 40
thrash around some in these parts.
Carl was telling me to-day. how the
teacher whipped one Of the boys yes.
terday. ~ tell you what. papa, that
boy got forty.nine licks, for count
ed 'em, and he never ever, oi,nKed 'nn"h;ra no, !"
t.VUhv ha IL n tOuQh One.V said l,